[rfc] Readonly/mirror branches

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 12:31 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 09/05/2006, at 8:58 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to just completely remove the 'push to the branch we bind to'
> > logic.
> >
> > Given that we have bzr push and bzr commit both able to push into the
> > master, it seems like bind is serving two masters : it is establishing
> > the link, and it is performing update and push as well. I think bind
> > should *just* establish the link - like unbind *just* breaks it.
> 
> That's probably simpler, but we should make it clear what happened.   
> If there are new revisions there we should say something like
> 
>      Bound to http://fofofof/
>      There are 12 new revision in there; use bzr update to bring them in
> 
> If they've diverged we should give an error as at present.
> 
> This also relates to the question of just what should be shown by log.

I think if they are diverged, the local commits should be treated as
local commits, and no error should occur.

Only when there is no common ancestor other than NULL_REVISION should we
generate an error.

Rob


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